♥ Pretty Little Things.. ♥

“Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer is simple - to be happy. Maybe it’s this expectation of wanting to be happy that just keeps us from ever getting there. Maybe the more we try to will ourselves to states of bliss, the more confused we get - to the point where we don’t recognize ourselves. Instead we just keep smiling - trying to be the happy people we wish we were. Until it eventually hits us, it’s been there all along. Not in our dreams or our hopes but in the known, the comfortable, the familiar.”

Meredith Grey - Grey's Anatomy

As surgeons, there are so many things we have to know. We have to know we have what it takes. We have to know how to take care of our patients... and how to take care of each other. Eventually, we even have to figure out how to take care of ourselves. As surgeons we have to be in the know. But as human beings, sometimes it's better to stay in the dark, because in the dark there may be fear, but there's also hope. 

Meredith Grey- Grey's Anatomy

Peace isn’t a permanent state. It exists in moments… fleeting. Gone before we even knew it was there. We can experience it at any time.. In a stranger’s act of kindness. A task that requires complete focus. Or simply the comfort of an old routine. Every day, we all experience these moments of peace. The trick is to know when they’re happening so that we can embrace them. Live in them. And finally… let them go.

Derek Shepherd - ‘Give Peace a Chance’

Letting go is having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving.

LETTING GO IS GROWING UP.

It is realizing that the heart can sometimes be the most potent remedy.

To let go is to open a door, and to clear a path and

… SET YOURSELF FREE.

You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be. White dress, Prince Charming who’d carry you away to a castle on a hill… You’d lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming. They were so close you could taste them. But eventually you grow up. One day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is, it’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely ‘cause almost everyone still has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they’ll open their eyes and it will all come true.


 At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realise that the fairy tale might be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important that it’s happy ever after, just that it’s happy right now. See, once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you. And once in a while, people may even take your breath away.

Meredith Grey - ‘Save Me’